Description: splice: lack of generic write checks References: Notes: bwh> I have a reproducer for this. On 2.6.32 it causes ext4 to corrupt bwh> the filesystem (which is caught by e2fsck). On 3.2 it causes ext4 to bwh> hang on umount. ext3 and xfs don't seem to be affected. Bugs: - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163792 upstream: released (3.16-rc1) [8d0207652cbe27d1f962050737848e5ad4671958] 2.6.32-upstream-stable: released (2.6.32.66) sid: released (3.16.2-1) 3.2-wheezy-security: released (3.2.65-1+deb7u2) [bugfix/all/splice-apply-generic-position-and-size-checks-to-eac.patch] 2.6.32-squeeze-security: released (2.6.32-48squeeze11) [bugfix/all/splice-apply-generic-position-and-size-checks-to-eac.patch] 3.16-upstream-stable: N/A "fixed before 3.16" 3.2-upstream-stable: released (3.2.67) [splice-apply-generic-position-and-size-checks-to-eac.patch]